The Faded Portrait

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The bell tolled. It was not a sound of metal striking metal, but a low, resonant hum that seemed to rise from the marrow of the stones themselves. I stood in the crypt. The air was thick, stagnant, tasting of wet chalk and old blood. My hands were bound. The ropes were rough hemp, biting into the flesh of my wrists, but I did not feel the pain. I felt only the weight of the dark. You are here,...

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